Hurricane Florence's NRC Current Event Notification Document Dump Tomorrrow

This is the only event report on Hurricane Florence. 

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53609
Facility: BRUNSWICK Region: 2     State: NC Unit: [1] [2] [] RX Type: [1] GE-4,[2] GE-4 NRC Notified By: THOMAS SHERRILL HQ OPS Officer: VINCE KLCO	Notification Date: 09/15/2018 Notification Time: 15:45 [ET] Event Date: 09/15/2018 Event Time: 00:00 [EDT] Last Update Date: 09/15/2018
Emergency Class: UNUSUAL EVENT 10 CFR Section: 50.72(a) (1) (i) - EMERGENCY DECLARED	Person (Organization): MIKE ERNSTES (R2DO) CATHERINE HANEY (R2) HO NIEH (NRR) WILLIAM GOTT (IRD)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

1

N

N

0

Hot Shutdown

0

Hot Shutdown

2

N

N

0

Hot Shutdown

0

Hot Shutdown

Event Text

UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO SITE CONDITIONS PREVENTING PLANT ACCESS "A hazardous event has resulted in on site conditions sufficient to prohibit the plant staff from accessing the site via personal vehicles due to flooding of local roads by Tropical Storm Florence." Notified DHS SWO, FEMA OPS, and DHS NICC. Notified FEMA NWC, Nuclear SSA, and FEMA NRCC via email

***These guys are experts with playing the media with happy land nuclear stories (knowingly falsification) and gaming the rules. I just don't know why the media plays along. East to get and free stories. Maybe just no nuclear plant competence in the newsroom. 

So this is the first event notification on this the NRC's page. There no is reason for Indian Point's event report regulation wise to get on the site. This is the only on the site. Where is Brunswick's notification of Friday? They should have released theirs Friday.  

I generally believe the NRC has a information blackout  sounding Brunswick and the other southern nuclear plants. 

They will probably release a dump of nuclear plant event notification on Monday. Unless a plant is still in big trouble.     

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53601
Facility: INDIAN POINT Region: 1     State: NY Unit: [2] [3] [] RX Type: [2] W-4-LP,[3] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: ERIK SILKO HQ OPS Officer: OSSY FONT	Notification Date: 09/13/2018 Notification Time: 08:24 [ET] Event Date: 09/13/2018 Event Time: 00:00 [EDT] Last Update Date: 09/13/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: OTHER UNSPEC REQMNT	Person (Organization): RAY MCKINLEY (R1DO) WILLIAM GOTT (IRD)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

2

N

Y

100

Power Operation

100

Power Operation

3

N

N

0

Hot Shutdown

0

Hot Shutdown

Event Text

HURRICANE NOTIFICATION PER TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT FOR HURRICANE FLORENCE "A hurricane is within 500 nautical miles from Indian Point Energy Center with wind speed in excess of 87 knots. The National Weather Service has issued a hurricane warning for a hurricane with wind in excess of 87 knots (approximately 100 mph) within 500 nautical miles of the facility. Per the Technical Requirement Manual a prompt report shall be made to the NRC Incident Response Center within 1 hour of receipt of that hurricane warning. "The licensee has notified the NRC Resident Inspector."

Emergency: I Need Somebody To Fly Over Brunswick with an Drone/Plane To Take Pictures

I'll post them on my blog.

Well, after this blog post, I here there was a P-3 airplane flying  and taking photography over the site. Somebody should ask for pictures.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20180917/brunswick-county-duke-energy-nuclear-plant-mostly-inaccessible

Flooding to roads leading to facility have stranded workers, however, plant remains safe

Duke Energy’s nuclear plant in Brunswick County is now inaccessible due to flooding, which has left workers stranded.

Highways 87, 133 and 211 to get to the Southport facility are all mostly impassable, although a few have braved the elements and made it in and out. One worker, who wish to not be identified, said they are fine despite the circumstances and got food delivered via helicopter.

The worker estimates about 250 people are at the plant between maintenance, security and operations

Sept 16, 2018. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS] 

“We are all dirty and tired,” the worker said. “We lost county water to the site yesterday, but we just got it back.”

The worker made it clear the plant is safe despite the effects from Hurricane Florence. Reactors were shut down hours before hurricane-force winds hit the region.

A P-3 Orion aircraft flew over the plant Monday to check on any damage from overhead.

Hobson's Choice: Meltdown Two Cores At Brunswick or Flood Tens of Thousands of Upsteam Homes And Businesses.

This is the Hurricane Harvey's Houston flooding paradox...

The setup

These upstream reservoirs and lakes have expensive vacation and secondary homes on their banks. The strategy of maintaining lake levels for the rich is to maintain the levels right up cozy near the mcmanions. The lakes are maintained high in the summer. The lakes for flood control, are set low for the winter and spring flooding control. They are still set at the high level now especially for the widespread wet summer runoff. The NC hydrology is still draining from the really wet summer. There was a high flow before hurricane Florence. Now biblical precipitation is occurring all though the state and especially for the lakes and reservoir. They are going to have to lower the flood gates...emergency reservoir control...in order not flood the lake expensive homes and the upstream town and communities. A tremendous wall of water then is going to flow down stream in the Cape Fear River to Brunswick. It is a meltdown in it own right. This drastically raises the Cape Fear River downstream up to a flooding level These lakes and reservoirs also have gigantic emergency spillways. You never want to use the spillway...it really is a dam safety device. Once the dams' level exceeds its design lake high level and water goes down the spillway, then you loose the flood control for the down steam communities. All the reservoir water flows out the spillway. In biblical flooding, there is no lake control. Sometimes the emergency spillway is overtopped by lake water flooding and nobody has any flood control for downstream communities. This begins damaging the dam by water erosion. This is called a dam failure and it increases the likely of a cascading dam failure.

So it is your choice: meltdown two nuclear cores or destroy all the  down stream properties and kill all those poor souls by flooding. That is what you are facing. This usually is a corrupt secret back room political deal what to protect.

Ok, why can't the reservoir authorities use their dam(s)flow control gates...throttle them... to control the river level around the Cape Fear River Brunswick area? They are suppose to have the collective reserve capacity to do this. I am confident they are highly sensitive to the nuclear plants in the area???                

The flooding comes within hours of the hurricane hitting the plant. Hurricane flooding is a highly dynamic and unpredictable situation. With up to 40" of rain hitting the North Carolina, we have no indication with how the "Ca pe Fear River" freshwater flooding will interact with the Hurricane surge. All the weathers authorities are saying this Hurricane Florence still has a Cat 4 hurricane surge. This is a facilitative assumption flood barrier. This is the best our monied political system can come up with. It is a Obama Walmart flood barrier.

This problem with engineers is they are trained to look at things in isolation. The NRC has unclear regulations with the licensees and NRC has to look at hurricane flooding holistically with fresh water flooding. So how about a cascading dam failure on the Cape Fear River? You want a name to remember, the Jordan Lake and the 1945 New Hope dam. They talk about a horrendous 1945 flooding event on the Haw River. It directly connects into the Cape Fear River. The got numerous locks on the Cape Fear River. They say most of NC is drained though the Cape Fear River. I mean, all the rivers and their dams that connect into the Cape Fear River. The Harris Lake and their Nuclear plant drains into the Cape Fear River. A cascading set of nuclear plants in a dire emergency?

NOAA says you can expect with a cat 4 hurricane three to greater six inches feet ocean surge over-topping the facility. Honestly, I don't trust NOAA with their computer modeling of hurricane surge levels...I don't trust the NRC's and the licensee modeling of the storm surge and anything associated with the licensee analysis of the storm surge. There is too much self interest involved with in all of this.

Holy Shit: Chaos In the Brunswick Control Room Now and No Required Hurricane Notification To NRC

Update

Really bad news: The Cape Fear River at Wilmington reaches its all-time high just before 4 p.m. Friday. At 8.27 feet, the river topped its previous high of 8.17 feet set during Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

High tide at 2 am. 

Update

The political ramifications... 

What if Brunswick and other southern plants pops tonight or in the next week or so? The state and federal political ramification. At the least, all nuclear plants in North Carolina will permanently shut down. Vogtle is a goner. There will be a long awaited political revolution in the state. 

Don't we all live in interesting times? It is the greatest awaking ever.

If Duke made a public notification early in this, how stuff and big helicopters could our military stage outside the hurricane zone. This will be in the congressional blue ribbon commission...    


You completely disserve it!!! You all know it, we all exactly disserve what we get for out apathy 

  
***OK, I am having a reevaluation on Indian Point's false event reporting of a hurricane in the vicinity of their plant today. IP employees are highly trained on emergency event reporting for normal and emergency event reporting to the NRC. Even in the lowest emergency classification, it is critical they make timely emergency condition to the NRC. This begins spinning up the NRC organization at the earliest moment according to the classification level. They are trained over and over and over on this. There are experts onsite to detect crew incoherence and poor communications. They are highly sensitive with missing a expected and required emergency notification. It means the crew in the control room are poorly trained...it is a direct indication of chaos in the control room and a out of control crew. I think they analyzed what a missing emergency notification means, decided they got to do something about it. They were trying to signal Brunswick is in serous trouble based on their expert experience by sending a false Hurricane notification to the NRC. It was truly a cry for help about Brunswick. It was truly a insider smoke signal to bypass a set of organizations            

***Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock: Waiting for a NRC public response!!! 

Brunswick: "Holy Shit Moment"




Mike Mulligan <steamshovel2002@gmail.com>

10:11 AM (17 minutes ago)



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"Holy Shit: Chaos In the Brunswick Control Room Now and No Required Hurricane Notification To NRC"

https://steamshovel2002.blogspot.com/2018/09/holy-shit-chaos-in-brunswick-control.html

NRC Allegation

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Right, Indian Point nuclear plant made a false "hurricane in the vicinity" of their plant NRC notification last night, where is Brunswick's???
Current Event Notification Report for September 14, 2018

Brunswick is supposed to make a "set" of hurricane emergency notifications to the NRC. Like a hurricane is in the vicinity of a plant or feeling hurricanes winds. They shutdown both of the plants yesterday. But they are not there. 

Why not speculate? These guys are in the eye of the hurricane right now!!! 

1) They could have had issues with preparing for the hurricane, troubles with the shutdown and issues with the hurricane hitting the plant last night. The control room does notification this though senior leadership. Hmm, two inspectors of the site? Why didn't they prod them? The "control room" began going out of control last night in the chaos and complexity.  

2) Our politicians and the senior NRC leadership decided it would be too disruptive with Hurricane Florence's recue and recovery efforts...they decided to blackout all of Brunswick public required normal and emergency notifications for the greater good. Troubles at the nuclear plant would be too disruptive to the hurricane recue and recovery effort at the news media reporting, local, state and federal levels. Are they doing this at all the southern plants?      

Entergy Declares A Hurricane Notification On Indian Point Nuclear Plant In New York

This sounds like its coming from disgruntled and malicious employees. Pretty high up too. Isn't Indian Point on the way too permanent shutdown. I hope these employees won't harm the harm the plant? 

This also shows the NRC employees aren't paying attention to their work?

One can't imagine the magnitude of the NRC resources that are tending the hurricane crisis at Brunswick and nuclear plants in the south. All nrc eyes are on hurricane Florence. This is a particularly mean time for Indian Point employees to be playing nuclear plant emergency notification games with the NRC?

Or is it a cry for help?         

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53601
Facility: INDIAN POINT Region: 1     State: NY Unit: [2] [3] [] RX Type: [2] W-4-LP,[3] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: ERIK SILKO HQ OPS Officer: OSSY FONT	Notification Date: 09/13/2018 Notification Time: 08:24 [ET] Event Date: 09/13/2018 Event Time: 00:00 [EDT] Last Update Date: 09/13/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: OTHER UNSPEC REQMNT	Person (Organization): RAY MCKINLEY (R1DO) WILLIAM GOTT (IRD)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

2

N

Y

100

Power Operation

100

Power Operation

3

N

N

0

Hot Shutdown

0

Hot Shutdown

Event Text

HURRICANE NOTIFICATION PER TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT FOR HURRICANE FLORENCE "A hurricane is within 500 nautical miles from Indian Point Energy Center with wind speed in excess of 87 knots. The National Weather Service has issued a hurricane warning for a hurricane with wind in excess of 87 knots (approximately 100 mph) within 500 nautical miles of the facility. Per the Technical Requirement Manual a prompt report shall be made to the NRC Incident Response Center within 1 hour of receipt of that hurricane warning. "The licensee has notified the NRC Resident Inspector."